― John Bowlby
“young children, who for whatever reason are deprived of the continuous care and attention of a mother or a substitute-mother, are not only temporarily disturbed by such deprivation, but may in some cases suffer long-term effects which persist
― Bowlby, J., Ainsworth, M., Boston, M., and Rosenbluth, D. (1956). The effects of mother-child separation: A follow-up study. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 29, 211-249.”
― John Bowlby
“It will happen but it will take time.”
― John Bowlby
“for to have a deep attachment for a person (or a place or thing) is to have taken them as the terminating object of our instinctual responses."
Separation anxiety. International Journal of Psycho-Analysts, XLI, 1-25 (1959(”
― John Bowlby
"If a community values its children it must cherish its parents."
― John Bowlby, Maternal Care and Mental Health
“...it was regarded as almost outside the proper interest of an analyst to give systematic attention to a person's real experiences.”
― John Bowlby
“Whoever may still be sceptical whether knowledge of animal behaviour can help our understanding of man can find no support from Freud.”
― John Bowlby, Attachment: Volume One of the Attachment and Loss Trilogy: Attachment Vol 1
“Freud only rarely draws on the data of direct observation, one or two of the occasions when he does so are key ones. Instances are the cotton-reel incident on which he bases much of his argument in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (S.E., 18, pp. 14–16), and the agonising reappraisal of the theory of anxiety that he undertakes in Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (1926).”
― John Bowlby, Attachment: Volume One of the Attachment and Loss Trilogy: Attachment Vol 1
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“In their ‘attempt to state explicitly and systematically that body of assumptions which constitutes psychoanalytic metapsychology’, Rapaport and Gill classify assumptions according to certain points of view. They identify five such viewpoints, each of which requires that whatever psychoanalytic explanation of a psychological phenomenon is offered must include propositions of a certain sort. The five viewpoints and the sort of proposition each demands are held to be the following: The Dynamic: This point of view demands propositions concerning the psychological forces involved in a phenomenon. The Economic: This demands propositions concerning the psychological energy involved in a phenomenon. The Structural: This demands propositions concerning the abiding psychological configurations (structures) involved in a phenomenon. The Genetic: This demands propositions concerning the psychological origin and development of a phenomenon. The Adaptive: This demands propositions concerning the relationship of a phenomenon to the environment.”
― John Bowlby, Attachment: Volume One of the Attachment and Loss Trilogy: Attachment Vol 1
“Propositions of a genetic and adaptive sort are found throughout this book; and, in any theory of defence, there must be many of a structural kind. The points of view not adopted are the dynamic and the economic.”
― John Bowlby, Attachment: Volume One of the Attachment and Loss Trilogy: Attachment Vol 1
“A model of the psychical apparatus that pictures behaviour as a resultant of a hypothetical psychical energy that is seeking discharge was adopted by Freud almost at the beginning of his psychoanalytical work.”
― John Bowlby, Attachment: Volume One of the Attachment and Loss Trilogy: Attachment Vol 1
“Although from time to time details of the psychical energy model underwent change, Freud never considered abandoning it for any other kind of model. Nor have more than a handful of other analysts. What, then, are the reasons that have led me to do so?”
― John Bowlby, Attachment: Volume One of the Attachment and Loss Trilogy: Attachment Vol 1
“First, it is important to remember that the origin of Freud’s model lay, not in his clinical work with patients, but in ideas he had learned previously from his teachers—the physiologist Brücke, the psychiatrist Meynert, and the physician Breuer.”
― John Bowlby, Attachment: Volume One of the Attachment and Loss Trilogy: Attachment Vol 1
“Now there is nothing unscientific in utilising, for the interpretation of data, any model that seems promising; and there is therefore nothing unscientific either in Freud’s introduction of his model or in his own or others’ employment of it. Nevertheless, the question arises whether there may by now be an alternative better suited for the purpose in hand.”
― John Bowlby, Attachment: Volume One of the Attachment and Loss Trilogy: Attachment Vol 1
See also: D.W. Winnicott Quotes here.
